Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/April 2006

...that most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection?
...that Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy, which is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water?
...that when the British Army first attacked the Agra Fort in 1803 under Lord Warren Hastings, a cannon ball fired by the artillery struck the Takht-i-Jahangir (throne of Jahangir), but did not manage to destroy it and only caused a superficial crack on one side?